Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 164, 27 May 1916 — Page 14
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1916
Lucia Zora Rides on Big Elephants
When Sells-Floto Circus Comes to Town
Lucia Zora has charge of training the large herd of performing elephants which amuse the thousands of spectators who view the circus during the year. The unwieldy creatures are fond of their trainer.
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Odd and Interesting Facts
Since the war began the individual earnings of the London taxi cab drivers have decreased 20 per cent. Almanacs arc in existence that wero compiled In the fourteenth centnry, but they are in mamt flcript; the flrnt printed almanac was Isnued,; about the year .1475. In December, 1913, national savings in Russia amounted only
to $350,000; in December, 1914, however, after the sale of vodka had been stopped, the savings had reached nearly $15,000,000. During a recent year the United States of America produced 34,000,000 tons of petroleum oil; Russia. . 9,000.000 tons; Mexico, 3,700,000 tons; Sumatra and Borneo, 2,000,000 tons; Roumania, 2 000,000 tons and Oalacia and British India each slightly over 1,000,000 tons.
Your Daily Laugh
NOTHING GAINED.
What was the result of your petition to the landlady for fewer prunes? Negligible. It elniply got us more rhubarb.
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THEY'RE ALL DECEIVERS. "Shure, an' niver trust a policeman. They're a desavin lot." "They are that. Me man Moike was completely taken in by one last night, an hasn't got out yet"
This Alarm Clock is Woodpecker How much wood would a woodpecker peck if a woodpecker would peck tin? No, the last word is correct. A woodpecker in l'atchlogue, (L. I.) does the very thing every morning and he has the whole neighborhood thoroughly aroused, for he does his pecking at an early hour in the morning when the boys and girls and their fathers and mothers want to sleep. Mr. Woodpecker has his home in an old tree in the village. There is a vacant house in the village, which has a tin cap at the base of a flagstaff. Every morning the woodpecker flies to the flagstaff and pecks away at the tin. There is any amount of wood on the shingle roof, but Mr, Woodpecker prefers the tin. After he has made his visit to the flagstaff, the woodpecker visits a half-dozen tin roofs in the neighborhood and peeks away merrily. The question that has arisen is: Does this woodpecker peck the tin because it makes a louder noise than pecking on wood would do, or does he do it to sharpen the end of
his bill? Why do you think he does it?
Little Martha had a pretty box decorated with flowers in which she kept her pencils and pens. She had used almost all the pencils and they were short and stubby. She also had three pen holders. The pen points were old and black from
ink stains. One day her father gave her a brand new pen point. She was very glad to get the new pen, for the old ones did not write very well any more. She put the new pen into the box. This new pen was very proud
and stuck up. "I don't, like you at all," she told the old rusty and
black pen points. "VI hy don't you wash your faces and clean up?" The old pens smiled sickly and
said, "Wait until Martha puts you to use, then you will not talk so
Bmart and foolish, but will be just
as dirty as we are." ,
Martha did not use the new pen
point for several days, because she wanted to use up the old ones. This
made the new one very jealous.
"I wish she would use me," paid
the foolish pen. The other ones
laughed at her and said, "When
you get older you will have more sense."
One day Martha took one of the
old pens out of the holder, cleaned it, and put it in the place where the new pen had been. She took
the new one and after fitting it into the holder dipped it into the ink.
"Oh my, how dirty I am," earn
the new pen point after Maitlia lifted the pen out of the ink The
new pen was sick at heart and felt so badly that it did not know what
to do for shame.
When Martha was through with
her work, she put the pen back in
the box.
How the other pens did laugh.
"You acted so smart and cute,"
they said, "but now you are just as dirty as we are. We hope you will feel at home with us." The new pen could say nothing.
Rabbit Trained to Play Games
How would you like to own tho smartest rabbit in the world? If you tried to train one of your own, hr would be forced to learn some very funny things. A little girl in Seattle has a rabbit that will play hide and seek with the children; when tcld it is "bedtime for bunnies" he runs across the lawn and flattens him
self on the grass; when told to dig a hole he does it at once. This bunny never leaves the yard without permission of his mistress. The rabbit is a good friend of the family cat. The little giri is teaching the cat to pat the rabbit. Bunny's favorite dishes are raspberry jam and raisins If he does not get a potato a day, he is unhappy. The little girl has taught him to set up and have his head rubbed. He is large in size, maltese and white in color.
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Child Discribes Trip to Circus
Mother took my little sister Jean and I to see the Bony show, but Jean was tired and sleepy and mother had to take her home. I had a ride on the ponies. It was a nice show. The next morning mother told me I might stem the strawenies for dinner. I like to stem strawberries. After mother went out of the room Jean got under the table. She was the animals. We had a bear, an elephant and a monkey. The animals got very hungry and I fed them with strawberries. When mother came in she said, "Why! Devorah, what has become of the
strawberries? There are not enough for dinner." Jean put her head from under the table and said:" Why! mother, you see I be the animals and Devorah fed me." Grandmother, wrote this for me. I am six years bid. D. J. K.
MEADOWLARK Sturnella magna and Sturneila neglecta. Length, about ten and three--fourtiis inches. Range: Breed generally in the United States, touthern Canada, and Mexico to Costa Rica; winter from the Ohio and Potomac valleys and British Columbit southward. Habits and economic status. Our two meadow larks, though differing much in song, resemble each clher closely in plumage and habits. Ovas-
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Bovs Use Hoes
The older boys at the Wernle Orphans' home enjoy working in the garden in spring. As soon as spring arrives, they take hoes and rakes and busily prepare ? the garden for the summer vegetables. The orphans raise some fine crops for the borne table.
ANOTHER BATTLE. "What Is that mob doing around the gate?" "These are bleacher fans, and they're fighting for their place in the shade."
sy plains and uplands covered with
a thick growth of grass or weeds, with nearby water, furnish the conditions best suited to the meadowlark's taste. The song of the western bird is loud, clear, and melodious. That of its eastern relative is feebler and loses much by comparison. In many localities the meadowlark is classed and shot as a game bird. From the farmer's standpoint this is a mistake, since its value as an insect eater is far greater than as an object of pursuit by the sportsman. Both the boll weevil, the foe of the cotton grower, and the alfalfa weevil are among the beetles it habitually eats. Twenty-five per cent of the diet of this bird is beetles, half of which are predaceous ground beetles , accounted useful insects, and onefifth are destructive weevils. Caterpillars form 11 per cent of the food and are eaten in every omnth in the year. Among these are many cut-worms and the well-known army worm. Grasshoppers are favorite food and are eaten in every month and almost every day. The vegetable food (24 per cent of the whole) consists of grain and weed seeds.
.AJ1 the famous men and women of this world have always spoken highly of their parents. We wonder jf there's a reason. Perhaps they became big men and women because they respected their parents.